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Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 06:54 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean
- Jeff Dean’s University of Minnesota degree was in computer science and economics, not computer science and engineering.
- Dean’s undergraduate honors thesis was on parallel training of neural networks; primary sources do not support the claim that it was about “neural networks in C programming.”
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 12:12 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
- This is inaccurate because Yudkowsky was not the sole founder of MIRI. MIRI’s own materials describe him as a co-founder and say the organization was founded together with Brian and Sabine Atkins.
- This misstates the incident. The question was asked at a White House press briefing to Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, not directly to President Joe Biden.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:56 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Alcatraz
- This is off by about a year. Reliable sources say Radio Free Alcatraz was broadcast live through September 3, 1970, and that the island’s power cutoff happened during mid-1970, not late May 1971.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:53 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatraz_Island
- The year 1846 is impossible here. Alcatraz was not even being used as a prison until 1859, and official National Park Service timelines show its military-prison use continuing into the 20th century.
- National Park Service histories give a different first garrison: Captain Joseph Stewart and 86 men took command in 1859, not about 200 soldiers at the end of 1858.
- National Park Service histories describe pre-1853 Alcatraz as an undeveloped rock and date construction on the island to the U.S. fortifications that began in 1853, not to Spanish-built island structures.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:53 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alcatraz_escape_attempts
- This reverses a key fact of the 1946 escape attempt. Official histories say the prisoners got weapons and cellhouse keys, but they did not have the key needed to unlock the recreation yard door.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:52 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape
- This sentence length is wrong. Official U.S. Marshals records say John Anglin received 10 years and Clarence Anglin received 15 years for the 1958 Columbia, Alabama bank robbery, not 35 years each.
- This inmate number is incorrect. National Archives records list Allen Clayton West under Alcatraz register numbers 1130 and 1335, not 1330.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:31 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus
- This misstates both Cassius Dio and the usual count of Elagabalus’s female marriages. Dio says he married 'many women,' not 'five,' and modern scholarship commonly counts four marriages to women, with Aquilia Severa as both second and fourth wife.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:30 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian
- These dates are off. Modern reference works place Shapur I’s death in 270 and Hormizd I’s short reign in 270–271, not 272 and 273.
- This overstates what the sources say. The main ancient source says Alexandria lost the greater part of the Bruchion district under Aurelian, not that the whole quarter was burned to the ground.
- Modern scholarship rejects the old story that Orléans was named directly after Emperor Aurelian. Reference works describe that link as an erroneous tradition.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:30 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus
- Cassius Dio says the praetorians only arrested Pertinax’s killers before reporting to Silius Messalla; their execution came later under Septimius Severus.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:29 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probus_(emperor)
- The rebel in Britain is described in the source tradition as a Roman governor/usurper, not a British "king."
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximinus_Thrax
- This is inaccurate because Gordian III was not proclaimed emperor against Maximinus. He was appointed Caesar during the revolt and only became sole Augustus after Pupienus and Balbinus were killed later in 238.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_the_Arab
- Philip was not born in a place called Philippopolis. Sources say he was born at Shahba, and that the site was only renamed/founded as Philippopolis after he became emperor in 244.
- This overstates the 244 peace terms. Sources say Philip paid a large indemnity, but Upper Mesopotamia remained in Roman hands; Armenia is more accurately described as a renounced Roman protectorate, not a simple cession of both Armenia and Mesopotamia.
- Philip II was already Augustus before the millennium celebrations of 248. Sources date his elevation to co-ruler to 247, not to the celebrations themselves.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebonianus_Gallus
- This raid is misplaced in time. Standard references date the Gothic destruction of Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis to 262 CE, during the reign of Gallienus, not during Trebonianus Gallus’s reign, which ended in August 253.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallienus
- This dates Saloninus's elevation too early. He was still Caesar in July 260 and is dated by academic and museum sources to have taken the title Augustus in autumn 260, at Cologne.
- This caption misidentifies the legion and even the coin legend. The coin shown is for Legio V Macedonica and reads LEG V MAC, not LEG VII MAC.
- Valerian’s capture is normally dated to 260, not 259. Sources on Gallienus’s peace toward Christians place it after Valerian’s disappearance in autumn 260 or later.
- This conflates Gallienus’s cavalry reform with the later comitatenses. Gallienus is credited with creating a mobile cavalry corps, but comitatenses were the later late-Roman field armies and were not primarily cavalry units.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus
- The Severan dynasty was founded by Septimius Severus himself, not by his sons after his death.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:28 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Gothicus
- With a birth date of 10 May 214, a death in August or September 270 would make Claudius about 56, not 55.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_(emperor)
- Gallienus did not first become emperor in 260. He had already been emperor alongside Valerian from 253; 260 was the year he became sole emperor.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrinus
- Elagabalus was already proclaimed emperor by rebel troops in mid-May 218, weeks before Macrinus was defeated at Antioch on June 8, 218.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decius
- This date is wrong. Valerian’s persecution began in 257, not 253, with a second edict in 258.
Wikipedia Aug 5, 2026 at 05:27 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aemilianus
- This misreads the Epitome de Caesaribus. In that text, the Girba/Meninx birthplace clause refers to Trebonianus Gallus and Volusianus, while Aemilian is described separately only as "a Moor by origin."
- Valerian is usually placed in Raetia and Noricum at this point, not as governor of the Rhine provinces. Ancient and modern sources describe him as operating in Raetia/Noricum and bringing troops from Gaul and Germany.